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BE SEEN: Find Your Voice. Build Your Brand. Live Your Dream.

Do you feel like you’re hiding in the shadows and not living up to your potential? Do you dream of building a business, but lack the confidence to start? Do you want to stop comparing yourself to other people on social media and start feeling empowered in your own journey?

If you answered yes to any of these questions, then this is the guide you need to step into your spotlight at last. BE SEEN is an inspiring road map for building a personal brand that showcases your unique talents and strengths. Through relatable stories and actionable advice, Jen Gottlieb shares her own path to becoming a recognized expert in her field and takes you on a journey of self-discovery to help you find your voice and unleash your full potential.

Divided into four parts, each filled with step-by-step methods and tactical strategies, BE SEEN helps you to:

BE COURAGEOUS—using mindset shifts and self-reflection exercises to break through the barriers holding you back

BE CREATIVE—by tapping into the unique talents that make you stand out so you can build the future you dream of

BE CONNECTED—by building meaningful relationships, cultivating loyal supporters who align with your values and goals, and using Jen’s networking tips and tricks to connect with others authentically

BE VISIBLE—with practical content creation and marketing strategies to help you step into your spotlight and showcase your talents to the world

Whether you’re an entrepreneur or a creative professional, or just want to build a life that reflects your true self, BE SEEN gives you the tools to step forward as the incredible, unique person you are.

I’m Not a Mourning Person: Braving Loss, Grief, and the Big Messy Emotions That Happen When Life Falls Apart

New York Times bestselling author KRIS CARR shares (embarrassing, painful, helpful, and often hilarious) stories and observations in this transformational book about loss, grief, and what to expect when you’re not expecting your world to fall apart.

A few years ago, Kris, a highly popular wellness leader who has educated and empowered millions for nearly two decades, found herself in the midst of a major life rupture—that moment when your worst fears are being realized. Her father was dying, her business was faltering, and her 20-year anniversary of living with an incurable stage IV cancer was on the horizon. But, as Kris found, “Even the worst ruptures can reveal a road map to our next chapter of fully alive living.”

In I’m Not a Mourning Person, Kris couples her signature wit and raw storytelling with tools and practices to help you tend to your most painful wounds with fierce grace. When your life has been turned upside down—whether by the dissolution of a relationship or marriage; the end of a job or career; or, like Kris, the grief of illness or death—it may feel easier to deny or bury whatever big, messy feelings threaten to overwhelm you. As Kris reveals, however, “When we’re brave enough to tend to our hearts, our messy emotions can teach us how to be free—not free from pain, but free from the fear of pain and the barrier it creates to fully living.”

Spiritual Activator: 5 Steps to Clearing, Unblocking, and Protecting Your Energy to Attract More Love, Joy, and Purpose

According to renowned energy healer and spiritual activation expert Oliver Niño, your soul arrived in a clear, energetic state, and the universe wants you to return to your natural way of being.

Energetic blocks can hamper your ability to be the best version of yourself, while traumas, ancestral roots, or environmental factors give birth to feelings of fear, guilt, anger, and betrayal. But in this book, Oliver shares his 15-day energy cleanse that not only detoxes your energetic fields but helps you to tap into a higher power and activate your spiritual gifts.

By following Oliver’s program, which includes exercises, tools, and meditations—you will see vast improvements in your physical, emotional, and energetic bodies. After cleansing your energy field, you’ll also learn how to sustain this clearer state and invite peace, happiness, and abundance into your life.

Writes Oliver, “You already know about the healing benefits of green smoothies, liver cleanses, and detox diets. Well, it’s as important to cleanse your energetic body as it is your physical and mental ones. By doing this, you eliminate any issues at their energetic roots, which allows your body to become a clear vessel through which divine frequencies can flow.”

Dreams of Awakening: Use Lucid Dreaming to Rewire Your Brain While You Sleep (Revised Edition)

If you sleep, you dream, and if you dream, you can lucid dream – this book will show you how.

Lucid dreaming, the art of becoming conscious within your dreams, allows you to explore your mind’s deepest potential while you sleep. This practice has powerful, scientifically verified benefits while also being fun, exciting and spiritually transformative.

In this ground-breaking exploration of lucid dreaming within both Western scientific and Tibetan Buddhist traditions, Charlie Morley distils wisdom from more than 20 years of practice and teaching. This completely revised and restructured edition includes up-to-date scientific research and new sections on the use of lucid dreaming to aid the treatment of depression, PTSD and nightmares. Using a three-part structure of Ground, Path and Germination you will discover:

• how to lucid dream for psychological and spiritual growth
• the science and transformative benefits of lucid dreaming
• the latest research into lucid dreaming for treating trauma
• how to rewire your brain to create new, powerful pathways while you sleep

NEW in this edition: A brand-new chapter on trauma integration based on Charlie’s breakthrough 2023 study, the latest research into shadow work and healing (drawing on Charlie’s work with war veterans), and five new lucid dreaming techniques.

Caged …

This is my Abbu…my father. I never used to call him Abbu … I love to call him by this name in my memories of him…always.

There’s so much ‘mamta’ in the word ma. More than in a mother herself. Just saying the word starts off a churning in the navel.

Intimate, subtle and deeply personal, Caged … Memories Have Names is probably Gulzar Saab’s first autobiography in verse.

Gulzar Saab ruminates and writes in rainbow colours. From Rumi to Pablo Neruda and Jibananda Das, among others, have coloured him in myriad of hues. With this he has painted the portraits of Birju Maharaj, Mehdi Hasan, Pancham, Asha Bhosle in words. Their palpable presence, thoughts and words are etched in Gulzar Saab’s existence. Then there are people, who have showered his life with love, affection with multitude of emotions: Meghna, Raakhee ji, Vishal Bhardwaj, and Javed Akhtar Saab, to name a few. And, words that remained unsaid to Abbu, search for his Ma within his own existence, they are the silken bonds of life. Gulzar Saab has ‘caged’ them deep inside his heart.

They are for now … and … forever.

The Power Of Imperfect Eating

Dr. Bhatnagar’s book offers us timely and effective guidance on how to change our eating habits if we want to move away from a lifestyle of ”living to eat” to a lifestyle of ”eating to live well”. Professor Das Narayandas, Edsel Bryant Ford Professor of Business Administration, Harvard Business School

In Power of Imperfect Eating, Dr. Kavita Bhatnagar introduces readers to a unique journey through the lens of a food technologist, nutritionist, and psychologist who is deeply passionate about food choices and consumer behaviour.

Rather than dictating which foods are good or bad, this book offers a different perspective. It’s not about laying down dietary rules or giving nutrition advice. Instead, it weaves together stories—stories that mirror the intricate, emotional, and often imperfect connection we all share with food. Through these narratives, it invites you to reflect, not just on what you eat, but on how food fits into the broader journey of your life.

Through these stories, you’ll explore how food shapes our lives, our behaviours, and our choices in ways that go far beyond the plate. You’ll meet characters navigating real dilemmas around food, health, and lifestyle—whether it’s reading food labels, balancing health goals, or simply understanding why they eat the way they do.

The book encourages readers to embrace imperfection in their relationship with food, finding peace in progress rather than perfection. Challenging the conventional habit of categorizing food as either “good” or “bad,” she guides readers to re-evaluate how they engage with food in their everyday life without guilt, without judgment—just curiosity and understanding.

And just when you think you’ve learned it all, the author unveils something truly transformative at the end—a powerful tool that will become the reader’s greatest asset in creating lasting, positive change in their relationship with food and health. This revelation makes Power of Imperfect Eating an essential guide for anyone ready to take control of their well-being.

Premium, Luxury, Special Edition of The Bhagavad Gita by Bibek Debroy

The foundational text on dharma and Hindu philosophy, exquisitely rendered by one of our most eminent Sanskrit translators

As a spiritual guide, the Bhagavadgita is a mesmerizing account of the debate between right and wrong, and the bond between action and consequence. One of the core Hindu scriptures, it is part of the great Indian epic, the Mahabharata, and unfolds in the form of a dialogue between Krishna and the Pandava prince, Arjuna.

This beautifully produced bilingual edition is a masterful verse-for-verse translation, providing the original Sanskrit verses alongside the English rendition. Bibek Debroy’s deep familiarity with the text yields a treasure trove of insights that will delight the scholar and the lay reader alike, making this essential reading for anyone with an abiding interest in Indian scriptures.

Percy Jackson and the Kane Chronicles: Special Collection 5 Books Boxset (The Kane Chronicles Trilogy, Demigods and Magicians, Magician’s Manual)

A fantastic 5-books boxset featuring Rick Riordan’s extraordinary Kane Chronicles trilogy, along with a companion book to the series, Brooklyn House: Magician’s Manual and Demigods and Magicians.

The Red Pyramid (Kane Chronicles Book 1)
Brilliant Egyptologist, Dr. Julius Kane tries to bring his estranged children together. Instead, he unleashes the Egyptian god Set, who banishes him to oblivion and forces the children to flee for their lives. To stop him, the siblings embark on a dangerous journey across the globe.

The Throne of Fire (Kane Chronicles Book 2)
Carter and Sadie, offspring of the brilliant Egyptologist Dr. Julius Kane, embark on a worldwide search for the Book of Ra, but the House of Life and the gods of chaos are determined to stop them.

The Serpent’s Shadow (Kane Chronicles Book 3)
Despite their best efforts, Carter and Sadie Kane can’t seem to keep Apophis, the chaos snake, down. Now Apophis is threatening to plunge the world into eternal darkness, and the Kanes are faced with the impossible task of having to destroy him once and for all.

Demigods and Magicians
Join Percy Jackson, Annabeth Chase and Carter and Sadie Kane as they battle with an ancient Egyptian magician determined to become a god. Against impossible odds, the four demigods and magicians team up to prevent the apocalypse. Contains short stories The Son of Sobek, The Staff of Serapis and The Crown of Ptolemy, in one volume for the first time.

Brooklyn House: Magician’s Manual
Packed with quizzes, stories and inside info on the Ancient Egyptian deities, this training manual is the insight you need to harness the powers of the Kane Chronicles Trilogy.
For those with the blood of the pharaohs, this is your first step down the path of the gods.
But beware, anything can happen in the world of Egyptian magic . . .

On Beauty

What does it mean to be in the presence of beauty? And how can one explore and understand this through the filmography of writer, director, editor, music composer and choreographer Sanjay Leela Bhansali?

In this sweeping text, Prathyush Parasuraman walks the reader through the auteur’s films—those hailed, those hauled—like Gangubai Kathiawadi, Padmaavat, Devdas, Ram-Leela, and Saawariya. With sensitivity and finesse, On Beauty examines beauty as an idea, and aesthetics as a philosophy, while simultaneously shedding light on the making of Bhansali’s painstaking frames through conversations with his cinematographers, composers, choreographers and production and costume designers. In these pages, Bhansali’s cinema comes alive.

Gods, Guns and Missionaries

When European missionaries first arrived in India in the sixteenth century, they entered a world both fascinating and bewildering. Hinduism, as they saw it, was a pagan mess: the worship of devils and monsters by a people who burned women alive, performed outlandish rites and fed children to crocodiles. But soon it became clear that Hindu ‘idolatry’ was far more complex than white men’s stereotypes allowed, and Hindus had little desire to convert.

But then, European power began to grow in India, and under colonial rule, missionaries assumed a forbidding appearance. During the British Raj, Western frames of thinking gained ascendancy and Hindus felt pressed to reimagine their religion. This was both to fortify it against Christian attacks and to resist foreign rule. It is this encounter which has, in good measure, inspired modern Hinduism’s present shape. Indeed, Hindus subverted some of the missionaries’ own tools and strategies in the process, triggering the birth of Hindu nationalism, now so dominant in the country.

In Gods, Guns and Missionaries, Manu S. Pillai takes us through these remarkable dynamics. With an arresting cast of characters—maharajahs, poets, gun-wielding revolutionaries, politicians, polemicists, philosophers and clergymen—this book is ambitious in its scope and provocative in its position. Lucid and exhaustive, it is, at once, a political history, a review of Hindu culture and a study of the social forces that prepared the ground for Hindu nationalism. Turning away from simplistic ideas on religious evolution and European imperialism, the past as it appears here is more complicated—and infinitely richer—than popular narratives allow.

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